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It’s almost time for the Toronto International Film Festival for Children, Sprockets (it runs this year from April 12th to 18th) and the complete line-up of films has been announced. Once again this year all film journalists will find it impossible to mention the festival without bringing up Mike Myers (after all, it’s was one of the best SNL sketches ever, really) but far more relevantly, this year Sprockets features 68 films from 26 countries in 15 languages, maintaining its position as one of the most amazing opportunities for children from ages as young as three to connect with the visual language of other cultures.

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site—from LAist to Londonist—compile some of their most interesting posts into a brief blurb. It's Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse, and it appears, across the network, every Sunday.

Recently, Torontoist went canoeing in Algonquin Park (we got 34 mosquito bites). However, arguably the most amusing thing to happen during our entire trip was passing a billboard on our way into the park advertising a "Dock in a Box." We instantly became distracted by a lengthy fantasy that the company knew exactly what it was doing and included a YouTube video on its website about how it created the Dock in a Box (you know—"One, we cut a hole in the box; two, we put our tech in the box!"), but were recently disappointed to find that there’s nothing funny at all on the company website.

One week and one-hundred-and-sixty-seven entries later, our Justin Timberlake contest has mercifully ended. Congratulations to our winners, Michelle Hollywell and Sonya Barnett! They'll each get a pair of tickets to Timberlake's August 20 concert at the ACC.

In addition to providing a name and e-mail address, we asked submitters to rename Timberlake's "Dick in a Box" SNL skit to any combination of Body Part (in a) Noun. While we got a lot of great entries to our challenge (most, unsurprisingly, involving genitals), some stood out above others. Here are our favourite submissions. Non sequiturs and offensiveness clearly win us over easily, and to these entrants we extend an honourable mention—and to our readers we extend our apologies in advance for any offense taken.

Anyone can make a digital short and then use the interweb to distribute it around the world. It helps if it's something that people want to watch and then tell their friends about, but spreads the message better than playing to 14 people in the back of a bar.

What does the international community say? U.S. President George W. Bush calls the verdict "a milestone in the Iraqi people's effort to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law". The UN and European Union criticize the former Iraqi leader's death sentence. Vatican representative, Cardinal Renato Martino, calls the sentence "eye for an eye vengeance". Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay refused to comment.

Abuse, dancing, destruction, disappointment, death and Laffy Taffy, in that order:

Though its ratings are most accurately described as pure suck, Arrested Development is one of the best shows to make it past pilot in a long long time. And part of that success can be attributed to Toronto native Will Arnett, who plays the first-born son, a mostly ignored, washed-up magician of a man. Gob (pronounced Job) single-handledly elevates the segway from Paris tourist accoutrement to sitcom cool, wearing hot pink sweaters all the while. And sometimes hot yellow ones too. Beyond the segway, Arnett manages to find time to be married to SNL's Amy Poehler, who also plays his wife on the show. Which airs Sunday nights. Or just wait for the DVD.